And…we’re back.

QRW is now returning to its regularly scheduled program, but with a few enhancements, improvements and otherwise niftiness! Check out our new design and features. Read about Quiet Rebel Writer and what this whole hubbub is about. View some greatest hits. And get ready for more righteous, rockin’ rebellion on our way to being the best damn writers and creatives ever. Ever, I say!

Wondering what’s coming up? Oh my dears. Here’s just a taste:

Monday: One way to inspire, impress and otherwise push us to keep writing is by looking at the masters. They are Writers that Matter, and they should be on your bookshelves. Today we’ll look at Cormac McCarthy, he of the “Quotation marks? I defy thee!” philosophy, as well as the “Blood? Check. Cannibals? Check. Heartbreaking emotion? Damn effing right, check” game.

Tuesday: Freelance writing is awesome. But it can also blow goats. If you want to learn how to make it really, really blow goats and ewes and rams, then our weekly Freelance Reality Dose is for you. This week: “How to Be a Freelancer and Hate Every Minute of It.”

Wednesday: Writing is tricky. It’s hard. That’s why it’s the craft that occupies fifteen shelves of resource books at your bookstore. What’s worth your time and money? For Resource Review, we figure it out. Today we look at one gem from another rebel, The Renegade Writer.

Thursday: Another way to inspire, impress and otherwise push us to keep writing? Learning about living, breathing, and eating freelancers like you and me, folks that have made their own paths, effed up and learned from it, and are making it happen. They’re our peers, our office buddies without offices, and our daily encouragement. Today we talk with Elizabeth McQuern, blogger, writer, and comedy producer in Chicago.

Friday: And how about that writing? To end the week we turn to Creative Life&Links, where we look at the best kickass examples of writing in the “famous” world, in the bloggy world, and here in the QRW empire.

But oh – there’s more my friends! QRW now has sister blogs, and you simply must check them out. First up is a little concept you might recognize, now given its very own individual home in the interwebs: Word Porn. This week, we discover weird words and stories for yokels, violent dissolution of empires, hatred, and those powerful benies that make us whore ourselves out. Don’t want to miss a day? Subscribe for your daily dose!

And coming very soon is a place to recognize and celebrate those rebellious lasses that we find in history, in books, in popular culture, and in our everyday world. What Would Octavia Do? presents females and feminist heroes that break rules and make our world better because of it.

Exciting stuff. And you’re a part of it. These blogs are where you need to be.